By Sarah | January 17, 2012
AllAfrica.com, 17 January 2012
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) today joined the fight to repeal parts of Lesotho’s discriminatory Chieftainship Act, which only allows the first-born son to succeed to chieftainship, by filing submissions in a landmark case that is due before the country’s Constitutional Court next month. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Mark | July 1, 2011
IPS, 30 June
When the United Nations inaugurated a landmark special agency for women last January, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon set an initial target of 500 million dollars as the proposed annual budget for the new gender-empowered body.
But nearly six months later, the voluntary funding for U.N. Women (UNW) from the 192 member states has remained painfully slow. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | June 20, 2011
Guardian Online, 14 June 2011
The price of womanhood came brutally to Odette, born in a wartorn country often dubbed “the rape capital of the world”.
The 18-year-old from Minova recalls the day that members of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), came to her village in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and scarred her life for ever. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Mark | March 7, 2011
March 8 marks the centenary of International Women’s Day. Millions across the world will celebrate the achievements women have made in the struggle for gender equality whilst highlighting the inequality and discrimination women still face.
ACTSA in collaboration with Amnesty International UK will be holding a vigil, outside the Swaziland High Commission, to call for equality and rights for the women of Swaziland. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Mark | February 8, 2011
A women’s conference in Addis Ababa aimed to move gender issues from the margins to the forefront of debate in Africa
Elissa Jobson, Guardian.co.uk
“We know that the African Union summit is still very masculine but we are trying to bring in the voices of women,” said Gertrude Mongella, former president of the Pan-African parliament, explaining the rationale behind the shadow summit organised by the Gender is my Agenda Campaign (Gimac) in Addis Ababa on 24-26 January. A difficult proposition in a forum where, at the very highest level, there is only one female representative, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Info | January 10, 2011
More than 30 women were raped in a coordinated attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo on New Year’s Day, the aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières has reported. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Info | January 4, 2011
The United Nations made history today as UN Women, the UN agency dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women, has officially begun its work. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Mark | December 2, 2010
By Victoria Dove Dimandja and Jose Musau Kalanda, It must stop campaign
The Congolese people have endured Africa’s longest and deadliest war. The scramble for Congo’s enormous mineral wealth has fuelled a conflict which has claimed the lives of more than 6 million people since 1996, and ongoing mass rapes. This is the worst humanitarian crisis and the world’s deadliest conflict since World War II, yet the media has given it little attention, and much of the world remains uninformed. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Mark | November 29, 2010
Congress of South African Trade Unions, 26 November 2010
At the launch of yet another 16 Days of Action Campaign, it is worth asking ourselves if the campaign is having any impact, because just about everywhere you look there are indications that some things are getting worse. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Campaigns | November 17, 2010
After five years of campaigning and eight months since the General Assembly resolved to create a new entity for gender equality, the United Nations established UN Women in July 2010. For decades the UN’s work on women has been fragmented between four small bodies, but with the creation of UN Women there is now an agency similar to UNICEF or UNDP to provide a unified voice on gender equality. Read the rest of this entry »
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